7.4

CVE-2025-4953: Podman: build context bind mount

Deferred
AliasesRHSA-2025:16729UBUNTU-CVE-2025-4953DEBIAN-CVE-2025-4953
Published 16-09-2025Last modified 14-10-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-4953 is a high (CVSS 7.4) vulnerability in podman. EPSS estimates a 0.64% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 50.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Prioritisesevere

Severe, CVSS 7.4 (CVE.org); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources; EPSS 1% (FIRST, 03-11-2026)

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
7.4/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.64%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 8 · Related 5
OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15564-1OPENSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1RHSA-2024:8690RHSA-2025:15904RHSA-2025:16724RHSA-2025:17669

Timeline

  1. 16-09-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 14-10-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A flaw was found in Podman. In a Containerfile or Podman, data written to RUN --mount=type=bind mounts during the podman build is not discarded. This issue can lead to files created within the container appearing in the temporary build context directory on the host, leaving the created files accessible.

CVSS metrics

8 scores · 8 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.64%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

51%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.64% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Redhat13 products
  • podman< 5:5.2.2-2.rhaos4.18.el8
  • podman-catatonit< 5:5.2.2-2.rhaos4.18.el8
  • podman-catatonit-debuginfo< 5:5.2.2-2.rhaos4.18.el8
  • podman-debuginfo< 5:5.2.2-2.rhaos4.18.el8
  • podman-debugsource< 5:5.2.2-2.rhaos4.18.el8
Chainguard5 products
  • falco-no-driverAll versions (No fix recorded)
  • podmanAll versions (No fix recorded)
  • podman-fipsAll versions (No fix recorded)
  • prometheus-podman-exporterAll versions (No fix recorded)
  • prometheus-podman-exporter-fipsAll versions (No fix recorded)
Github.com/containers/podman4 products
  • v2All versions (No fix recorded)
  • v3All versions (No fix recorded)
  • v4All versions (No fix recorded)
  • v5≤ 5.5.0 | All versions (No fix recorded)
Debian2 products
  • libpodAll versions (No fix recorded)
  • podman< 5.3.2+ds1-1
Ubuntu2 products
  • libpodAll versions (No fix recorded)
  • podmanAll versions (No fix recorded)
Wolfi2 products
  • falco-no-driverAll versions (No fix recorded)
  • podmanAll versions (No fix recorded)
Github.com/containers1 product
  • podmanAll versions (No fix recorded)

7 vendors · 29 products

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